Word: owlish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davy is deep in the piney woods taking time off from Indian-fighting to try to "grin" a bear into submission. This budding effort at psychological warfare fails, and Davy needs a knife to subdue the critter. Throughout the picture, the heroic act is never far removed from the owlish legpull: when Crockett comes prancing into Congress garbed in backwoods buckskins, neither he nor anyone else pretends that these are his idea of city clothes or that his "by-cracky" freshman speech is anything...
...boss as Stalin was. Anthony Eden, alumnus of Yalta, expects to sit for leonine Winston Churchill. For the U.S., Eisenhower will sit in the place filled by Franklin Roosevelt. The new chair will belong to France, represented at none of World War IPs summit conclaves. Occupying it will be owlish, cautious Premier Edgar Faure...
...Manhattan. Son of a Mississippi River steamboat captain, he began handicapping in 1914, worked at virtually every track in the country before settling down in 1935 to placing weights for the 1,500 races a year at New York's four tracks (Aqueduct, Belmont, Jamaica, Saratoga). Blunt, owlish Louisianian Campbell remained blandly unperturbed by owners' and trainers' protests over his weight assignments, calmly pursued the handicapper's dream, i.e., a race so perfectly handicapped that all entries would finish in a dead heat. He came closer to perfection than any racing secretary...
...M.I.T. that Schwinger developed his owlish habits. The noise and bustle of the Radiation Laboratory was so intense during the day, that he preferred to work at night. He often worked from midnight to dawn--"there were fewer people around then, just the scrub women...
Michael Cahaly, a white mustached Syrian, has banked his fortunes on undergraduate caprice for the past twenty-five years. Together with Raphael, his younger brother, he keeps Cahaly's grocery store open every day and far into the night to cater to the owlish tastes of students for late snacks, Pogo, and Mickey Spillane...